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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8m

Make your plans to attend a #NoKings event on Saturday, October 18th. Millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.

Please join in! You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2m

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 3m

Times headline writers literally do not believe headlines are for saying what the news is; headlines are for showing that the paper is reserving judgment about events and not getting carried away

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 8m

This isn’t really a classic both-sides treatment, it’s more the institutional rule that it’s rude and unsophisticated to summarize the facts of a situation in a headline if you can write an archly detached vague understatement instead

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 6m

Depends on the narrator says the narrator.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 31m

The leadership of the measles outbreak response was fired in the RIF spree while RFK JR attempts to completely dismantle measles vaccine access for children.

Measles (Rubeola)
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As of October 7, 2025, a total of 1,563 confirmed* measles cases were reported in the United States. Among these, 1,542
measles cases were reported by 42 jurisdictions: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. A total of 21 measles cases were reported among international visitors to the U.S.
There have been 44 outbreaks** reported in 2025, and 87% of confirmed cases (1,355 of 1,563) are outbreak-associated. For comparison, 16 outbreaks were reported during 2024 and 69% of cases (198 of 285) were outbreak-associated.

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Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 19m

MAGA Lunatics are committing cartoonishly stupid voter fraud to make it harder for everyone to vote.

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 23m

A Mainer received an Amazon package containing 250 missing ballots for a GOP-backed referendum that would restrict ballot access. Amazon claims the box contained only the expected items, leading some to ask whether the mishap was a political stunt. https://bit.ly/42DKdwZ

Mail Ballots Were Found in an Amazon Box in Maine. Some Suspect a Political Dirty Trick.

Read more here...

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Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 23m

MAHA-aligned, I meant.

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Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 26m

It's a MAGA-aligned thing (not entirely bad, in this case) where they're pushing to make the chips seem more natural and "whole grain" aligned.

The actual survey is more about "real potatoes", meaning (I think) sliced whole vs. highly processed potatoes.

Lay's Is Making a Big Change to Its Chips

Lay’s is removing artificial flavors and colors from its chips and debuting a new logo. Here’s everything you need to know about the changes.

www.allrecipes.com

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 18h

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 15h

“Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help ‘liberate’ Venezuela with bombs under the banner of ‘freedom.’”

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

www.commondreams.org

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

“For more than three hours, correctional officers can be seen walking past his cell while he lay on the floor in obvious distress.

The jail nurse was not called until a female guard noted he was foaming at the mouth and having seizure-like activity.”

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

“While the president’s authority to grant clemency for federal crimes is virtually unfettered, the power to impose vengeance via prison assignments isn’t clear.”

Actually, the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. It’s in the Bill of Rights. It’s pretty clear.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 12h

“I’ve got no problem with gruel.” Under orders from Trump, officials seek to make the life sentences of 37 convicted killers more like a living hell. The men were spared the death penalty by Biden.

Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment.

Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said. “I’ve got no problem with gruel.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 16h

DHS default is to lie about every encounter. Which is why they’re trying to criminalize recording them.

CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two
Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

Thomas added that when he made his way down to the scene, around 8:30 Friday morning, he realized there was another person already detained inside the minivan being used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
"I didn't get his name, although I asked for his name," Thomas said. "He didn't speak very good English. They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video.'
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Tricia McLaughlin ®
@TriciaOhio
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She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
Heartland Signal D @HeartlandSignal • 3h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 16h

Holy footnote, Batman!

Hamilton: What kind of stupid, self-defeating, tyrannical maniac would send the National Guard hundreds of miles from home to oppress people in other states?! Sit down, Don.

$1 “A sample of this is to be observed in the exaggerated and improbable suggestions which have taken place respecting the power of calling for the services of the militia. That of New-Hampshire is to be marched to Georgia, of Georgia to New-Hampshire, of New-York to Kentuke and of Kentuke to Lake Champlain. Nay the debts due to the French and Dutch are to be paid in Militia-men instead of Louis d’ors and ducats. At one moment there is to be a large army to lay prostrate the liberties of the people; at another moment the militia of Virginia are to be dragged from their homes five or six hundred miles to tame the republican contumacy of Massachusetts; and that of Massachusetts is to be transported an equal distance to subdue the refractory haughtiness of the aristocratic Virginians. Do the persons, who rave at this rate, imagine, that their art or their eloquence can impose any conceits or absurdities upon the people of America for infallible truths?$

If there should be an army to be made use of as the engine of despotism what need of the militia? If
there should be no army, whither would the militia, irritated by being called upon to undertake a distant
and hopeless expedition for the purpose of rivetting the chains of slavery upon a part of their countrymen
direct their course, but to the seat of the tyrants, who had meditated so foolish as well as so wicked a
project; to crush them in their imagined intrenchments of power and to make them an example of the just
vengeance of an abused and incensed people? Is this the way in which usurpers stride to dominion over a
numerous and enlightened nation? Do they begin by exciting the detestation of the very instruments of
their intended usurpations? Do they usually commence their career by wanton and disgustful acts of
power calculated to answer no end, but to draw upon themselves universal hatred and execration? Are
suppositions of this sort the sober admonitions of discerning patriots to a discerning people? Or are they
the inflammatory ravings of chagrined incendiaries or distempered enthusiasts? If we were even to
suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that
they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs.”
The Federalist No. 29, at 186-187 (Alexander Hamilton) (Jacob Ernest Cooke ed., 1961).

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18h

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 22h

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Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 18h

Guzmán Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was imprisoned in the U.S. Video showed the family members walking across the border from Tijuana with their suitcases to waiting U.S. agents.

Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 18h

17 family members of notorious cartel leader enter U.S. in deal with Trump administration, Mexico says

Ovidio Guzman Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo "El Chapo" was imprisoned in the U.S.

www.cbsnews.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 18h

I know Mike Johnson says there is nothing for the House to do but there is.

You see by law a budget was supposed to be in place by Sept 30th, but Rs haven’t passed one. The reason? There isn’t a GOP budget. They haven’t even started working on one. This is what the House should be doing FFS!

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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 19h

Polling shows that the vast majority of Americans support the renewal of health insurance subsidies, even among Republicans. 70% of non-MAGA Republicans and 57% of MAGA Republicans supported renewal of the Biden-era subsidies. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/03/r...

Renewal of health subsidies backed by big majorities in poll, including Trump voters • Minnesota Reformer

The vast majority of Americans, including Republicans and those who identify as strong supporters of President Donald Trump, want Congress to renew the enhanced tax credits for people who buy their he...

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Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 19h

Take a page from Trump's January 2021 public schedule...

President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings. "

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